Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and 2 African regions

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Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and 2 African regions

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Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on

237 farms in 13 European and 2 African regions

GISELA LÜSCHER1,YOUSSEF AMMARI2,ALJONA ANDRIETS3,SIYKA ANGELOVA4,MICHAELA ARNDORFER5,DEBRA

BAILEY1,KATALIN BALÁZS6,MARION BOGERS7,ROBERT G.H.BUNCE8,JEAN-PHILIPPE CHOISIS9,PETER DENNIS10,

MARIO DÍAZ11,TETYANA DYMAN3,SEBASTIAN EITER12,WENDY FJELLSTAD12,MARIECIA FRASER10,JÜRGEN K. FRIEDEL13,SALAH GARCHI2,ILSE R.GEIJZENDORFFER14,TIZIANO GOMIERO15,GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ-BORNAY16, YANA GUTEVA4,FELIX HERZOG1,PHILIPPE JEANNERET1,ROB H.G.JONGMAN7,MAX KAINZ17,NORMAN KWIKIRIZA18,

MARÍA LOURDES LÓPEZ DÍAZ16,GERARDO MORENO16,PIP NICHOLAS-DAVIES10,CHARLES NKWIINE19,JULIUS OPIO18, MAURIZIO G.PAOLETTI20,LÁSZLÓ PODMANICZKY6,PHILIPPE POINTEREAU21,FERNANDO PULIDO16,JEAN-PIERRE

SARTHOU9,MANUEL K.SCHNEIDER1,TAHAR SGHAIER2,NORMAN SIEBRECHT17,SIYKA STOYANOVA4,SEBASTIAN

WOLFRUM17,SERGIY YASHCHENKO3,HARALD ALBRECHT22,ANDRÁS BÁLDI23,MÁRTA BELÉNYESI24,JACINTO BENHADI -MARIN25,THEO BLICK26,SERGE BUHOLZER1,CSABA CENTERI6,NORMA CHOISIS27,GÉRARD CUENDET28,HENDRIKA J. DE LANGE7,SYLVAIN DÉJEAN29,CHRISTO DELTSHEV30,DARÍO J.DÍAZ COSÍN31,WENCHE DRAMSTAD12,ZOLTÁN

ELEK32,GUNNAR ENGAN12,KONSTANTIN EVTUSHENKO33,ESZTER FALUSI6,OLIVER-D.FINCH34,THOMAS FRANK13,

FEDERICO GAVINELLI20,DAVID GENOUD35,PHILLIPA K.GILLINGHAM36,VIKTOR GRÓNÁS6,MÓNICA GUTIÉRREZ37, WERNER HÄUSLER38,XAVER HEER39,THOMAS HÜBNER40,MARCO ISAIA41,GERGELY JERKOVICH42,JUAN B.JESUS43,

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ESEZAH KAKUDIDI18,ESZTER KELEMEN6,NÓRA KONCZ44,ESZTER KOVACS6,ANIKÓ KOVÁCS-HOSTYÁNSZKI23,LUISA

LAST45,TOSHKO LJUBOMIROV30,KLAUS MANDERY46,JOSEF MAYR47,ATLE MJELDE48,CHRISTOPH MUSTER49,JURI

NASCIMBENE20,JOHANN NEUMAYER50,FRODE ØDEGAARD51,FRANCISCO JAVIER ORTIZ SÁNCHEZ53,MARIE-LOUISE

OSCHATZ13,SUSANNE PAPAJA-HÜLSBERGEN53,MAURO PASCHETTA41,MARK PAVETT54,CÉLINE PELOSI55,KÁROLY

PENKSZA6,REIDUN POMMERESCHE12,VICTOR POPOV56,VOLODYMYR RADCHENKO57,NINA RICHNER1,SUSANNE

RIEDEL1,JOHN SCULLION10,DANIELE SOMMAGGIO20,OTTÓ SZALKOVSZKI58,ERICH SZERENCSITS1,DOLORES TRIGO59, JIM VALE10,RUUD VAN KATS7,ANGEL VASILEV60,ANDREW E.WHITTINGTON36,JERYLEE WILKES-ALLEMANN61, TOMMASO ZANETTI20 1 Gisela Lüscher Debra Bailey Felix Herzog Philippe Jeanneret Manuel K. Schneider Serge Buholzer Nina Richner Susanne Riedel Erich Szerencsits

Agroscope Institute for Sustainability Sciences ISS Reckenholzstrasse 191 Zurich 8046 Switzerland felix.herzog@agroscope.admin.ch 2 Youssef Ammari Salah Garchi Tahar Sghaier

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Institut National de Recherches in Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêt, INGREF BP N°10 Ariana 2080 Tunisia 3 Aljona Andriets Tetyana Dyman Sergiy Yashchenko

Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University Soborna sq. 8/1

Bila Tserkva 09117 Ukraine

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Siyka Angelova Yana Guteva Siyka Stoyanova

Institute of Plant Genetic Resources “K.Malkov” Druzhba str.2 Sadovo 4122 Bulgaria 5 Michaela Arndorfer ARCHE NOAH Obere Strasse 40 Schiltern 3553 Austria 6 Katalin Balázs László Podmaniczky Csaba Centeri Eszter Falusi

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Szent Istvan University Institute of Nature Conservation & Landscape Management, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Páter Károly u. 1 Gödöllö 2100 Hungary 7 Marion Bogers Rob H. G. Jongman Hendrika J. De Lange Ruud van Kats

Alterra, Wageningen UR Droevedaalse steeg 3

Wageningen 6708 PB The Netherlands

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Robert G. H. Bunce

Estonian University of Life Sciences Kreuzwaldi 5

Tartu 51041 Estonia

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Jean-Philippe Choisis Jean-Pierre Sarthou INRA UMR 1201 Dynafor Chemin de Borde-Rouge Castanet-Tolosan 31326 France

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Aberystwyth University Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences Cledwyn Building, Penglais Campus

Aberystwyth SY23 3DD United Kingdom

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Mario Díaz

Museo de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC Madrid Spain 12 Sebastian Eiter Wendy Fjellstad Wenche Dramstad Gunnar Engan Reidun Pommeresche

Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research P.O. Box 115 Ås 1431 Norway 13 Jürgen K. Friedel Thomas Frank Marie-Louise Oschatz

University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna Gregor Mendel Strasse 33

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Ilse R. Geijzendorffer

Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE) Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée Bât. Villemin - BP 80

Aix-en-Provence cedex 04 13545 France

15 Tiziano Gomiero Mogliano Veneto Treviso 26086 Italy 16 Guillermo González-Bornay Maria Lourdes López Díaz Gerardo Moreno

Fernando Pulido

University of Extremadura Forestry School Av. Virgen del Puerto 2

Plasencia 10600 Spain

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Max Kainz Norman Siebrecht Sebastian Wolfrum

Technical University of Munich Centre of Life and Food Science Alte Akademie 12

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Makarere University School of Agriculture P.O.Box 7062 Kampala Uganda 19 Charles Nkwiine Gayaza Zone B Nangabo Sub-county Wakiso District Uganda

20 Maurizio G. Paoletti Federico Gavinelli Juri Nascimbene Daniele Sommaggio Tommaso Zanetti

Padova University Department of Biology via U. Bassi 58/b

Padova 35121 Italy

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Philippe Pointereau

SOLAGRO Initiatives and Innovations for Energy, Agriculture and Environment 75 voie du Toec

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MTA Centre for Ecological Research Alkotmány u. 2-4

Vácrátót 2163 Hungary

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Márta Belényesi

Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing 5 Bosnyák tér

Budapest 1149 Hungary

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Jacinto Benhadi-Marin

Mountain Research Centre (CIMO); University of Coimbra School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança; Department of Life Sciences

Campus of Santa Apolónia

Bragança; Coimbra 5301-855, 3004-517 Portugal

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Theo Blick

Senckenberg Research Institute Senckenberganlage 25

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Norma Choisis Avi-Pôle Réunion

14 rue de l'Etang ZAC Bel Air Saint-Louis 97450 France 28 Gérard Cuendet ZOOCONTROL Ch. de la Croix 26 Vauderens 1675 Switzerland 29 Sylvain Déjean

Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées 75 voie du Toec BP 57611

Toulouse cedex 3 31076 France

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Christo Deltshev Toshko Ljubomirov

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.

Sofia 1000 Bulgaria

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Darío J. Díaz Cosín

Universidad Complutense Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad Ciencias Biologías

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Zoltán Elek

MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, c/o Biological Institute, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary and Hungarian Natural History Museum

Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C Budapest 1117 Hungary

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Konstantin Evtushenko

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine B. Khmelnytskogo Str. 15 Kiev 01030 Ukraine 34 Oliver-D. Finch Tierökologische Fachbeiträge Achtern Nordpol 8 Rastede 26180 Germany 35 David Genoud David Genoud Dge 2 domaine Bellevue Arzens 11290 France

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Phillipa K. Gillingham Andrew E. Whittington

Bournemouth University Department of Life and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science and Technology

Christchurch House, Talbot Campus Fern Barrow Poole BH12 5BB United Kingdom

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Mónica Gutiérrez

Universidad Complutense Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad Ciencias Biologías

Madrid Spain

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Werner Häusler

Technical University of Munich Research Department Ecology and Ecosystem Management Emil-Ramann-Straße 2 Freising 85354 Germany 39 Xaver Heer privat Gerbegasse 15 Oberentfelden 5036 Switzerland 40 Thomas Hübner

ZAMG - Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik Hohe Warte 38

Vienna 1190 Austria

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Marco Isaia Mauro Paschetta

University of Turin Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology Turin Italy

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Gergely Jerkovich

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Juan B. Jesus

Universidad Complutense Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad Ciencias Biologías Madrid Spain 44 Nóra Koncz privat Hungary 45 Luisa Last

ETH Zurich Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center LFW, Universitätstrasse 2

Zurich 8092 Switzerland

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Klaus Mandery

Institut für Biodiversitätsinformation e.V. Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 6

Ebern 96106 Germany

47_{Josef Mayr}

AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture

Spargelfeldstrasse 191 Vienna 1220 Austria 48 Atle Mjelde Randsfjordvegen 1526 Enger 2866 Norway

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Norwegian Institute for Nature Research P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen

Trondheim 7485 Norway

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Francisco Javier Ortiz Sánchez

Universidad de Almería Transferencia de I+D en el Área de Recursos Naturales Ctra. de Sacramento s/n

La Cañada, Almeria 04120 Spain

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Susanne Papaja-Hülsbergen Technical University of Munich Arcisstrasse 21

München 80333 Germany

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Mark Pavett

National Museum of Wales Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology Cathays Park

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Céline Pelosi

INRA, AgroParis Tech UMR 1402 ECOSYS, UMR 1402 ECOSYS Versailles cedex, Thiverval-Grignon 78026, 78850 France

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Victor Popov privat

Mala Danilivka

Kharkov obl. 62341 Ukraine

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Volodymyr Radchenko

Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Akademik Lebedev Str. 37

Kiev 03143 Ukraine

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Ottó Szalkovszki Center for Plant Diversity Külsőmező 15

Tápiószele 2766 Hungary

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Dolores Trigo

Universidad Complutense Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad Ciencias Biologías

Madrid Spain

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Angel Vasilev

Sofia University Faculty of Biology 8 Dragan Tsankov Blvd.

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Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann

ETH Zurich Natural Resource Policy Group Zurich Switzerland

Abstract

Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed to changes in farming practices, and organic and low-input farming are assumed to mitigate detrimental effects of agricultural intensification on biodiversity. Since the farm enterprise is the primary unit of

agricultural decision making, management-related effects at the field-scale need to be assessed at the farm level. Therefore, in this study, data were collected on habitat characteristics, vascular plant, earthworm, spider and bee communities and on the corresponding agricultural management in 237 farms in 13 European and 2 African regions.

In 15 environmental and agricultural homogeneous regions, 6 – 20 farms with the same farm type (e.g. arable crops, grassland or specific permanent crops) were selected. If available, an equal number of organic and non-organic farms were randomly selected. Alternatively, farms were sampled along a gradient of management intensity. For all selected farms, the entire farmed area was mapped, which resulted in total in the mapping of 11,338 units attributed to 194 standardized habitat types, provided together with additional descriptors. On each farm, one site per available habitat type was randomly selected for species diversity investigations. Species were sampled on 2,115 sites and identified to the species level by expert taxonomists. Species lists and abundance estimates are provided for each site and sampling date (one date for plants and earthworms, three dates for spiders and bees). In addition, farmers provided information about their management practices in face-to-face interviews following a standardized questionnaire. Farm management indicators for each farm are available (e.g. nitrogen input, pesticide applications or energy input).

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Analyses revealed a positive effect of unproductive areas and a negative effect of intensive management on biodiversity. Communities of the four taxonomic groups strongly differed in their response to habitat characteristics, agricultural management and regional circumstances.

The data has potential for further insights into interactions of farmland biodiversity and agricultural management at site, farm and regional scale.

Key words:

agricultural management; arable crop; bee; BioBio; earthworm; grassland; habitat diversity; permanent crop; spider; Tunisia; Uganda; vascular plant

The complete data set is available online at: [to be completed at proof stage].